Designing the blog data schema

You will start designing your blog data schema by defining the data models for your blog. A model is a Python class that subclasses django.db.models.Model in which each attribute represents a database field. Django will create a table for each model defined in the models.py file. When you create a model, Django will provide you with a practical API to query objects in the database easily.

First, you need to define a Post model. Add the following lines to the models.py file of the blog application:

from django.db import models
from django.utils import timezone
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class Post(models.Model):
    STATUS_CHOICES = (
        ('draft', 'Draft'),
        ('published', 'Published'),
    )
    title = models.CharField(max_length=250)
    slug = models.SlugField(max_length=250,
                            unique_for_date='publish')
    author =...